The first time I ever heard The Birthday Party was when a slightly older but very wiser friend played me “The Bad Seed” 12″ EP after I told him about my recent life changing experience seeing The Jesus Lizard live.…
Category: noise
Yet Another ‘Dollar Bin Dandies’: Space Dust “Cool Car” 7″ (18 Wheeler, US, 1994)
New Zealand “sloppy psych rock band” (their words) Space Dust’s debut 7″ was released in 1994 via Tom Scharpling’s New Jersey-based 18 Wheeler label. In case you weren’t buying vinyl-only releases by New Zealand indie bands in the early to…
“It is the long history of humankind that those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” – Darwin… Lol Coxhill & Totsuzen Danball s/t LP (Floor Records, Japan, 1983)
Speaking from my own experience, free jazz and “prog” are two categories of music which, if you’re looking to learn more about and you ask someone who claims to be into them where you should start, chances are, depending on…
Dollar Bin Dandies Special Edition TRIPLE THREAT: the Prehensile Monkeytailed Skink 7″s.
I’ve always loved bands whose entire output consisted of nothing but 7″s. A posthumous anthology LP collecting said 7″s plus maybe a comp track or unreleased song or demo is not only fine, but encouraged. It’s no doubt difficult to…
Sing Us A Song, You’re the Piano Man from U.N.C.L.E. – First Church of Napoleon Solo “Debbydid” 7″ (UK, 1984)
When I was in high school around ”92-’93 I travelled to Boston with some older, cooler acquaintances to see some bands play at the Rat. I don’t remember who ws playing. I’m guessing Sick of it All or Sheer Terror?…
Dollar Bin Dandies: Art Thieves 7″ (HoZac, 2009)
I may have jinxed myself when I subscribed to the original Sub Pop Singles Club. I think the first record I got in the mail was the AmRep “Smells Like Smoked Sausages” 2×7″ comp or maybe the L7 single and…
Dollar Bin Dandies: White “This Is A Black-Owned Business” 7″ (Behemoth Records, 1998)
As the saying goes, “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure” and I thought I’d take the time to highlight some records I love that’re often floatin’ around for next to nothing. Some of this stuff might not be easy…
“At 7:45 p.m. I was shot in the left arm by a friend. The bullet was a copper jacket 22 long rifle. My friend was standing about fifteen feet from me.” – Chris Burden
The first time I ever saw a Born Against record was at Rhymes Records in New Haven, CT in 1991. I was 15 or 16. It was on a new release rack next to “Steady Diet of Nothing” by Fugazi,…
“After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.” – William S. Burroughs
For going on two decades I’ve had this memory in my mind of the hardest, most pronounced eye roll I had ever received from a record store employee. It wasn’t until a few years ago that a friend pointed out…
“I hope they never find out that lightning has a lot of vitamins in it, because do you hide from it or not?” – Jack Handey
If you’re a record collector who has spent any time keeping up with new releases within your preferred genres, surely at least once you’ve missed out on buying something “limited” that went OOP within minutes of being put up for…